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Sep 1, 2025
V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival is a novel for all seasons. It’s a book about seeing and the failure to see; about the difference between wanting to be a writer and...
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Jun 18, 2025
Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking. It was at Mercer Street Books, my second-to-last day back in New York. I was...
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May 16, 2025
When many people I know from my old life in New York find out I've emigrated to Lisbon, they assume I did so for typically self-interested hipster reasons. As they see it, I am...
Sep 1, 2025V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival is a novel for all seasons. It’s a book about seeing and the failure to see; about the difference between wanting to be a writer and...
Jun 18, 2025Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking. It was at Mercer Street Books, my second-to-last day back in New York. I was...
May 16, 2025When many people I know from my old life in New York find out I've emigrated to Lisbon, they assume I did so for typically self-interested hipster reasons. As they see it, I am...